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Music, Jewish Culture & Connection: Aiden Kent & The Portland Niggun Circle
This is a stressful, nail-biting week of argumentation, animosity and election stress. So, we take you in another direction: music that brings people together in literal and figurative harmony. Jewish music has been an entryway for those in the Jewish community who otherwise have felt alientated from Jewish prayer. A Niggun is a wordless melody that people sing together and can be transcedent. Jewish melodies inherited from our ancestors and new melodies created by peers find their way into Jewish prayer and can make Jewish prayer exciting and dynamic. Aiden Kent stops by the podcast to talk about music but the conversation goes deeper and into interesting places.... Enjoy.
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We are right at the beginning of what some have called "The 21st Century Jewish Cultural Renaissance," and The Genesis is the podcast watching it unfold, in real time and up close. Each week Rabbi Josh Rose has a conversation with a different Jewish artist or cultural figure to explore questions of artistic creativity, individual Jewish identity, Jewish expression and how Jewish arts are reshaping what it means to be Jewish. Our main focus in on the artists from Art/Lab: Innovating Jewish Arts and Culture, and Jewish artists in the Pacific Northwest. Rabbi Josh also engages national leaders (Rabbi...